Free materials from Strategy Dynamics
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The following is a list of available videos in reverse date order
| April 2009 |
Why Strategy Dynamics?
“Lessons from the crisis – proposals to professionalize strategy”.
This presentation was given to mixed audiences of faculty, executives and students at business schools
in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil during late-March and early-April, 2009. It discusses
some common errors of strategic management made both before and after the present business crisis,
and clarifies the need for better tools to help senior executives with such challenges. The presentation
offers some solutions that may go some way to satisfying that need, both for people already dealing with
strategy in their jobs and for those learning about strategic management for the first time.
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| February 2009 |
Application of strategy dynamics: Warren Farr
Warren Farr is CEO of a US company, Refrigeration Sales Corporation, supplying air conditioning equipment.
Warren says "Strategy Dynamics added a unique and proven discipline to the strategic work we were doing.
Using the proven Strategy Dynamic process focused our limited resources on organizing strategic issues, identifying
the critical resources, and developing the insight to more rapidly create intuitive and actionable business strategy.
Much of the resulting Strategy Dynamics materials can then be used to effectively communicate new strategies
to other members of the team." This is a presentation Warren made of his experience.
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| July 2008 |
Insights from Strategy Dynamics
Learning a new approach to strategy requires an investment in time, and possibly in the cost of courses
(see our "Mastering Strategy Dynamics" course). An appreciation of the value of the approach, the insights it
can bring and the return on investment that can be made are an important factor in deciding whether to make that
investment. This webinar covers three examples where significant insight could be achieved using the approach
and considers the ROI from it's use.
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| July 2005 | Forrester Prize presentation
This presentation includes a 25 minute case study on the use of the strategy dynamics approach.
The talk explains some of the challenges that arise for management, especially understanding
'what causes what, and why'. It demonstrates how, when these principles are put together, management
can put together a 'performance panel' for their business - a diagram that shows how changes in key parts
of the business combine to drive performance. From this foundation, the management team can sketch
out strategic options and evaluate the alternatives.
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List of available articles and papers in reverse date order - these items are all available elsewhere
on the site and are gathered here for convenience. They are available free of charge to registered site users.
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| 2009 | Article: Strategic Recovery
Originally published in the SPS magazine, this article has become relevant again in recent months.
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| 2004 | Article: Invisible Ink
Reporting on intangible assets, originally published in Business Strategy Review, Winter 2004, pp 57-65
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| 2002 | Conference paper: Scenario Dynamics - anticipating industry futures.
This paper summarises a panel session delivered in 2002 at the Strategic Management Society conference.
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| 2001 | Conference paper:
Strategic Performance and Business Dynamics
Presention: European CFOs Summit, 2001. Kim Warren builds the case for a strong understanding of key resources
and the strategic architecture, taking a retail example. He concludes with Marks and Spencer as the case in point
illustrating the effect of not doing so with a look at their problems in the late 1990's.
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| 2001 | Conference paper: Fact based Strategic Management
1st World Conference for Systemic Management - Vienna, May 2001. In this paper Kim Warren says that there are near-universal
expectations that face top management - they, and their investors, expect the organisation’s performance to progress strongly through time...
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| 2000 | Article The Softer Side of Strategy Dynamics
Looks at the impact of intangible issues. First published in Business Strategy Review, 2000, Volume 11 Issue 1 pp 45-58.
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| 1999 | Article The Dynamics of Rivalry
Explores the three types of rivalry for customers and other assets. First published in Business Strategy Review, 1999, Volume 10 Issue 4 pp 41-54.
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| 1999 | Article The Dynamics of Strategy
Introduces the strategy dynamics approach. First published in Business Strategy Review, 1999, Volume 10 Issue 3 pp 1-16.
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The videos listed below are intended to help you get started with mystrategy®. Kim Warren guides you
through the use of the first 4 strategy dynamics worksheets that build up to a strategic architecture. These materials
and additional documentation can be found in the "Book and course resources" section
of our website, chapters 1-4. Registration on the site is required to view. These videos can take a few minutes to load, please be patient.
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| Video tutorial - Using mystrategy introduction - speakers or headphones needed. Duration 17 Minutes. |
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Worksheet 1 is the first stage of a strategy dynamics analysis. It captures information on
how an organization, or a part of one, has been performing over recent periods on some key
performance measure, and how management wishes to see performance on that measure develop
into the future. One or more supporting objectives may also be captured.
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Using Worksheet 1 as a mystrategy model (12 minutes).
Part 2: (6 minutes)
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The second stage of a strategy dynamics analysis, worksheet 2 captures the factors explaining an organization's
performance on some measure - performance for which it has an improvement objective. The objective may relate to
- the organization as a whole, e.g. Profit ,
- some specific issue, such as Service Quality.
The Worksheet helps you lay out, quantitatively, the chain of causal factors that drive performance on this main objective. |
Using Worksheet 2 as a mystrategy model (part 1 - 7 minutes).
Part 2: Worksheet 2 (6 minutes)
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| The third stage of a strategy dynamics analysis, this worksheet captures how the level of a resource is increased or decreased
over time by the rates at which resources are added or lost. |
Using Worksheet 3 as a mystrategy model (10 minutes).
Part 2: Worksheet 3 (6 minutes) |
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| Worksheet 3 captured how the level of a resource is increased or decreased over time by the flow-rates at which quantities of
the resource are added or lost. Worksheet 4 goes on to identify the factors causing those flows to run at the rate they do. |
Worksheet 4 adding interdependence between resources. (8 minutes) |
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